I love teaching upper-level courses. I don’t hate lower-level courses either but upper-level is a different world. In the Intro to Literary Theory course, students stare at me with big, curious eyes, mesmerized by everything I say.
I started this course by saying, “People who don’t like to read don’t exist.”
And everybody gasped. It’s too cute for words: these kids are so young and so eager to learn things that my heart almost explodes when I look at them.
“People who say don’t like to read simply haven’t learned to see movies in their heads when they read,” I explained. “Whenever I open a book, I begin to watch a movie inside my head, a movie that I create myself, with some help from the book’s author.”
And everybody gasped again.
“It happens to me, too,” one student shared.
“Wow. . . I want to be able to do that, too,” another student said.
Then I told them about 1st-person narrators and omniscient narrators, and they were completely amazed.
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